A Word to the Wise: Watch your words--and your prayers! The devil hears them--he read and heard mine (see "Computers, Cars 'n the Crud"!) and the next day, attacked MY computer system with a vengeance unknown to man--or woman! Well, slight exaggeration--but if you've ever had computer woes, you know exactly where I was for the next 24 hours...
Thank God He heard my cries and helped this poor woman in distress! What the computer support person could not do, He did. He guided me to the source of the problem, helped me fix it--and it was DONE! Most of all, He turned the panic into peace--a WORKING peace! I was back at work and in peace--my printer actually printing, my mail program alive and well, my browser back in business and my HTML files not funny-looking any more! Whew! You can tell how technical I really am when something like this happens! I totally lose it--but I'm not alone...
Remember Peter, James and John in the boat on the sea? Now true, they did not have a printer malfunctioning, a mail program messing up, and a crazy computer crashing--but the waves they encountered certainly were! The waves crashed and smashed against their little fishing boat with vengeance...and they did the very thing that I would do--saints of God that we all are--they panicked! But don't scold them--or me--too much! You see, they also did something else--they went looking for Jesus--and so did I!
At my wit's end that day, I called "my pal," a retired pastor in the city--and HE took all my tears and trauma to the Master of the storm. He prayed that I too would hear MY Master say, "Peace, be still!" Within half an hour of that prayer, a miracle happened. I couldn't believe it, great woman of faith that I am--the Lord and I actually solved the problem--my printer working, my phone working, my mail coming in--and maybe I missed some sleep, my breakfast and ALMOST my lunch--but I had peace, praise the Lord!
Peter, James and John heard the Savior say, "Peace, be still." And so did I. He quieted the storm...all is calm at Peggie's Place once again...peace, not panic, reigns! And He'll do the same for you, whatever your crisis situation. May not be a computer--there are worse woes in life than computer ones--but take your troubles, whatever they are, to the Master of the sea. In the middle of the panic, call on Him--as loudly as I did that day!! He'll be there. He will turn your panic into peace...just as He did for me--trust Him and see!
Delight in a Word from the Well--a refreshing in the Water of His Word
"And he arose and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm (Mark 4:39 KJV)."
Draw from the Well--a prayer for renewing strength for this day
"Lord, the waves and crashing and smashing around my boat today--in panic, I cry unto You. Help me, Jesus--quiet the storm around me, and more importantly, the storm within me. Give me Thy peace, In Jesus' Name, Amen."
